- Frank St. Marseille
Frank St. Marseille (born December 14, 1939 in Levack, Ontario) is a retired a Canadian ice hockey forward. St. Marseille started his National Hockey League career with the St. Louis Blues in 1967. He would also play for the Los Angeles Kings. He would retire from the NHL after the 1977 season.
- Raymond Geoffrey Of Marseille
Raymond Geoffrey, viscount of Marseille, usually called Barral of Marseille, was the third son of Hugh Geoffrey of Marseille and his wife Cécile of Aurons. Barral of Marseille was a patron of troubadours, including Folquet of Marseille and Peire Vidal. Barral was first married to Adelaide Porcellet, daughter of Hugues Sacristan and Galberge Porcellet. They had one daughter, Barrale.
- William Of Marseille
William of Marseille was a thirteenth century English academic, teaching in France. He is known for the medical-astrological treatise "De urina non visa". The method is to apply a horoscope to deduce properties of the urine of a patient, when that cannor be obtained; and then to proceed to diagnosis. This book was still used at the University of Bologna in 1405.
- Walter W. Marseille
When he published his political articles, Dr. Walter W. Marseille was said to be a Berkeley, California psychoanalyst. He published occasionally on nuclear weapons policy in the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", from 1954 until 1962. Details of Marseille's personal and professional life are not public knowledge. However, he did, to a small extent, describe himself to Einstein: Ralph Fox of Princeton was a good friend; the mathematician, Hans Rademacher, …
- Hans-Joachim Marseille
Hans-Joachim Marseille (13 December 1919 - 30 September 1942) was a Luftwaffe pilot and flying ace during World War II. He was nicknamed the "Star of Africa". Marseille scored all but seven of his 158 victories against the British Commonwealth's Desert Air Force over North Africa. All of his victories were scored in the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
- Samir Nasri
Samir Nasri (born 26 June 1987 in Marseille) is a French attacking midfielder. He is Algerian by ethnicity and like many other soccer stars in France comes from a family of immigrants who had settled in France.
- Bernard Tapie
Bernard Tapie is a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was "Ministre de la Ville" (Minister of City Affairs) for two periods in 1992-1993, in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy. One of Tapie's businesses, a chain of health product stores known as "La Vie Claire", sponsored one of the strongest cycling teams of all time.
- Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former football midfielder who played for four European clubs, including Juventus FC and Real Madrid. As a member and later captain of the French national team he participated in two World Cup finals - including winning the tournament in 1998 - and in three European Championships, winning that tournament in 2000. Having gained fame in Europe as a playmaker for Juventus, …
- Jean-Claude Gaudin
Jean-Claude Gaudin was born October 8, 1939, in Mazargues, in southern Marseille. He is a French politician and was a member of the French National Assembly. He is currently mayor of Marseille, a position he has held since 1995.
- Mathieu Flamini
Mathieu Flamini (born March 7, 1984 in Marseille) is a French footballer currently playing for Arsenal as a midfielder.
- Boudewijn Zenden
Boudewijn "Bolo" Zenden (born August 15, 1976 in Maastricht) is a Dutch footballer who plays most often as a midfielder. Zenden is currently playing for Marseille. He has earned 54 caps and scored 7 goals for the Dutch national team, and he represented his country in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 tournaments. Prior to joining Marseille, Zenden played for PSV Eindhoven (1994-98), Barcelona (1998-2001), Chelsea (2001-03), …
- Eric Cantona
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a French former footballer of the late 1980s and 1990s. He ended his professional footballing career at Manchester United where he won four Premiership titles in five years, including two League and FA Cup "doubles". Cantona is often regarded as having played a major talismanic role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing powerhouse and he enjoys iconic status at the club. In 2001 he was voted their player of the century, …
- Clara Morgane
Clara Morgane, now a singer, media personality and TV host, is a former French porn star who was born on January 25 1981 in Marseille.
- Julien Rodriguez
Julien Rodriguez is a French professional footballer currently playing for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille. Rodriguez started his career at AS Monaco, making 135 appearances for the club, before joining Scottish Premier League club Rangers on August 4 2005 for £1m. He scored his first goal for Rangers on March 11 2006 in Rangers' 4-0 victory over Kilmarnock at Ibrox Stadium. He made a total of 30 appearances for Rangers in his debut season with the club.
- Salim Arrache
Salim Arrache, ,(born September 19, 1981 in Marseille) is a France born Algerian football midfielder, currently playing for French team Olympique Marseille. On March 11, 2007 he played his first Ligue 1 match for Marseille against Lyon
- Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart is the French choreographer who runs the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He is the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger. He was born in Marseille, France and founded the Ballet de l'Etoile company in 1954. In 1960 he founded the Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels. In 1984 he converted to Islam In 1987 he moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he founded the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, …
- Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He studied humanities at Dax with the Cordeliers and he graduated in theology at Toulouse. Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1600, remaining in Toulouse until he went to Marseille for an inheritance.
- Renato Civelli
Renato Civelli is an Argentine football defender. He was born on October 14 1983, in the city of Pehuajó in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Marseille of Ligue 1 in France. Civelli started his career at Banfield in the Primera Division Argentina. After 2 years with the club he was signed by Marseille in January 2006, during the European winter transfer window.
- Habib Beye
Habib Beye (born October 19, 1977 in Suresnes (France), is a Senegalese footballer, who currently plays for French League 1 giants Olympique de Marseille, he is the current captain of the Mediterranean club, since the start of the 2006/2007 season. He made substitute appearances in Senegal's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, against Denmark, Uruguay and Sweden, and is a regular feature in the Senegalese starting line up.
- Gaston Defferre
Gaston Defferre was a French socialist politician. Lawyer and member of the Socialist party SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International), he led a Resistance Socialist group during World War II. A long-standing member of the National Assembly (1945-1958, 1962-1986) and member of the Senate (1959-1962), he also served for many years as mayor of Marseille (1944-1945, 1953-1986). He was a formidable political force in the South-East, …
- Benoît Cheyrou
Benoît Cheyrou is a footballer from France who currently plays as midfielder for Olympique de Marseille in the French Ligue 1. He signed for l'OM from AJ Auxerre on the 21st of June 2007, and was represented along with new recruits Gael Givet and Laurent Bonnart. His capture was announced the day before. He caught the eye of sporting director Jose Anigo during the 2006/07 season. He played a pivotal role in the AJA team, he was also the team captain that season.
- Bruno Cheyrou
Bruno Cheyrou (born May 5, 1978 in Suresnes, France) is a professional football player for Rennes of the Ligue 1.
- Sébastien Grosjean
Sébastien René Grosjean (born May 29, 1978, Marseille, France) is a professional tennis player from France. He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, where he trains at the Evert tennis academy. His career-high ATP Entry ranking is No. 4 (achieved on October 28, 2002).
- Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play "Cyrano de Bergerac". Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late 19th century. One of Rostand's works, "Les Romanesques", has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy "The Fantasticks".
- Amara Diané
Amara Diané is an Ivorian football striker who plays for French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Côte d'Ivoire national team. He is thought to be one of the hottest prospects in Ivory Coast football today, having been dubbed 'The New Drogba'. At the start of his career Amara trained at the famous youth academy at Ivory Coast club ASEC Abidjan, before moving to the Parisian suburbs, where he joined French Club FC Mantes.
- Albin Ebondo
Albin Ebondo (born February 23, 1984 in Marseille) is a French football defender currently playing for Toulouse FC in the French Ligue 1. On 18 June, 2007, he signed a new contract until 2010, which his original one last until 2008
- Toifilou Maoulida
Toifilou Maoulida is a French footballer player who plays for Olympique de Marseille. He was born in Mayotte, a small island in the Indian Ocean, close to the Comoro Islands and Reunion Island, and raised in Marseille. He started his professional career at Montpellier Hérault Sport Club in 1997. In 2002, he was transferred to Stade rennais after the club was relegated to French second division.
- Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, in Marseille; died March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine (little Anthony), and was among a long list of names which Artaud went by throughout his life.
- Lamine Diatta
Lamine Diatta is a Senegalese footballer, who is currently a free agent, having left St. Étienne in France. Diatta is tall, strong and the holding force in the centre of Senegal's defence. He gives Senegal aerial power at the back as well as at attacking set pieces. Diatta played in all of Senegal's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Before moving to Lyon in 2004, Diatta played 142 games for Rennes, scoring 9 goals in that time.
- Miss Kittin
Miss Kittin is an electronica vocalist and DJ. At age 22 she began DJing, spinning records in France, Moscow and Chicago with Mike Dearborn. Soon after she met DJ Hell in Marseille who wanted her to record for his International DJ Gigolo label. She presented him with the EP "Champagne" that she recorded with The Hacker. Miss Kittin & The Hacker released "First Album" in 2001. Several tracks, such as "1982" and "Frank Sinatra", …
- Henri Fabre
Henri Fabre (born in Marseille on 29 November 1882, died in 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of "Le Canard", the first seaplane in History. Henri Fabre was born into a prominent family of shipowners in the city of Marseilles. He was educated in the Jesuit College of Marseilles, where he undertook advanced studies in sciences. He then studied intensively aeroplane and propeller designs.
- Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. He was born in Marseille, France. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. In 1930, he appeared in his first motion picture and for more than forty years he would be France's top comedic actor.
- Pytheas
Pytheas (Πυθέας(Pitheas), ca. 380 - ca. 310 BC) was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille, France). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe around 325 BC. He probably travelled around a considerable part of Great Britain, circumnavigating it between 330 and 320 BC. Pytheas is the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and polar ice, …
- Nicolas Penneteau
Nicolas Penneteau (born February 20, 1981 in Marseille) is a French football goalkeeper currently playing for Valenciennes FC in the French Ligue 1.
- Brahim Hemdani
Brahim Hemdani (born 15 March 1978) is a French professional football player of Algerian origin who currently plays for Rangers in the Scottish Premier League. Hemdani, who has been capped for France under-21 football squad, may play for his home country or the national team of Algeria, though he has declined the chance to be included as part of their squad on several occasions.
- Varian Fry
Varian Mackey Fry (October 15 1907 - September 13 1967) was a Hotchkiss School and Harvard University educated American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Varian Fry founded "Hound & Horn", an influential literary quarterly, in 1927 with Lincoln Kirstein while an undergraduate at Harvard. He married Kirstein's sister, Eileen.
- Shurik'N
Shurik'n Chang-Ti is a French hip hop artist from Marseille, born in 1966. He is one of the members of the highly successful group IAM, as well as a major solo artist. With his brother Faf Larage (Raphaël Mussard), he also forms the group La Garde. Mussard was born in Marseille on 11 March 1966, with Malagasy and Réunionnais origins. In 1988, he met Akhenaton, with whom he formed IAM.
- Jean-Claude Izzo
Jean-Claude Izzo (June 20, 1945 - January 1, 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three detective novels, "Total Kheops", "Chourmo", and "Solea", widely known as the Marseilles Trilogy, featuring as protagonist ex-cop Fabio Montale, and set in the author's native city of Marseille. All have been translated into English by Howard Curtis.
- Patrick Fiori
Patrick Fiori is a French singer. Fiori was born to an Armenian father (Jacques Chouchayan) and a Corsican mother (Marie Antoinette Fiori) in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical "La légende des santonniers". At the age of 16, he recorded his first single, entitled "Stéphanie". In 1993, Patrick came fourth place in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Mama Corsica".
- Franck Dumas
Franck Dumas (born 9 January 1968 in Bayeux) is a former French professional football player. He is currently the manager of Caen. Dumas started his career at Caen and played there for five seasons before moving to AS Monaco. He briefly played for Newcastle United in England in 1999 before moving back to France to join Marseille. He would later return to Caen where he continued playing until his retirement in 2004, and where he would continue to manage after his retirement.